Government reporting requirements are usually created in the name of transparency and accountability. But when legislatures continually add reports and...

The Lease, Development Agreement and Funding Agreement each define what happens if litigation voids the deal differently: one treats a...

Housing affordability is usually discussed as a spending problem, solved with subsidies, tax credits or public-private deals. Savannah's proposal is...

A facility that pays ordinary commercial property taxes, on infrastructure a company builds with its own capital, is a genuine...

Texas does not need to choose between subsidizing data centers and stopping them. It can require developers to provide credible...

Discretionary review creates a different problem: uncertainty after the fact. A project may appear acceptable under existing plans, but developers...

Before approving a subsidy, lawmakers should identify the public purpose, establish measurable criteria, require the necessary data, provide for independent...

The early evidence described by The Wall Street Journal supports a narrower and still positive conclusion: The World Cup brought...

The renewed interest in rent control, however, weakens that focus on addressing the problem by trying to manage the effects.

High spending does not automatically produce high performance. Residents care less about the size of a budget than whether streets...